PEAK-Expert
Rike Stotten
Focus
SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
Contact
Email:
Rike.stotten@uibk.ac.at
Phone:
+43 (0) 512 507 73425
Web:
Speaks: German, English, French
Rike Stotten’s research focuses thematically on Rural Sociology and Agro-Food Studies in mountain areas. She is interested in the manifold relationships and interconnections between town and country, production and consumption, as well as the underlying processes, structures and power relations. She is spokesperson of the Rural social Research Section of the Austrian Sociological Association and deputy spokesperson of the Mountain Agriculture Research Centre.
Focus Cloud: Mountain farming, rural areas, values-based modes of production and consumption, social resilience rural-urban linkages regarding food
About
Rike Stotten studied Geography and Sociology at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Universität Aachen and worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Spatial and Landscape Development at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and at the Competence Centre for Urban and Regional Development at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Innsbruck since 2020.
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